Did you know that cardiovascular deaths in the USA are down by 75% since the 1950s?
— Boyan Slat (@BoyanSlat) August 16, 2026
That CPR didn’t even exist a few decades ago?
That 5-year survival rates for childhood leukemia have increased from 15% to 85% since the 70s?
That a twice-a-year injection can now prevent HIV… https://t.co/JptLXfvnSo
Thomas Aquinas says very clearly that anger in itself is not a sin; it might even be praiseworthy. The question is whether your anger is justified and useful anger, or whether it's unreasonable and useless anger.
— The Chivalry Guild (@ChivalryGuild) August 15, 2026
Also, the failure to get angry when anger is justified is a sin,…
Men only want one thing and it’s freaking amazing.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 16, 2026
Old model galleons at wat at Sumners ponds, West Sussex, UK. pic.twitter.com/z4lDF9BVkP
One of the things that happens when you hit your mid 40s is that you realize C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton were only right about literally everything.
— Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) August 17, 2026
it is a bit crazy how overwhelmingly democratic BigLaw is. like there is not a single super prestigious firm where even a significant percent of donors are republicans. pic.twitter.com/DmGySst4Ul
— kicole nidman (@ferald_gord) August 15, 2026
If you had trusted the settled science of the day, here is how it would have gone.
— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) August 16, 2026
1890s: you dose the baby with Bayer's new cough syrup, the non-addictive alternative to morphine, marketed for children. It was heroin. They named it after the German for heroic.
1900s: you rub… pic.twitter.com/xb4UxhNp1l
Past a certain age, a man no longer speaks in terms of should or could, but instead is and will.
— Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) (@antoniogm) August 15, 2026
He ceases to live in the irrealis of the subjunctive and conditional, preferring the hard indicative and future tenses.
The hour grows late for hypotheticals and counterfactuals.
Incredible video of a Ukrainian commander of the 475th regiment without body armour rescuing two heavily injured Ukrainian soldiers with truck after their evacuation robot became damaged on the frontline from FPV drone attacks putting himself in grave danger.
— WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 (@WarMonitor3) August 16, 2026
Very brave. pic.twitter.com/UL8h6rPH41
This story gets crazier. The Mayor of Lawrence, left court today in a Dodge Charger and rammed into another car and left the scene. Same Mayor that can't speak English, and stole $1.5M in covid money. https://t.co/kGWRp0O6o5 pic.twitter.com/JvoCF11yJo
— Lee Kuan Yimby (@LeeKuanYimby) August 15, 2026
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